i may have found the issue, if its a modded planet you may need to go into the planet XML in the mod folder and make sure the <Vanilla xsi:nil=True/False> is set to false. i just had this issue with Limitar and it was set to True.

xsi:nil="True" means not set. Setting xsi:nil="False" will result in a parse error, and invalidate the config.

Does this support the real solar system mod?

i may have found the issue, if its a modded planet you may need to go into the planet XML in the mod folder and make sure the <Vanilla xsi:nil=True/False> is set to false. i just had this issue with Limitar and it was set to True.

Using the 120km EarthLike planet in the Star System save as an example:
* /ringast select @lookat should show the guide rings
* A EarthLike-1779144428d120000.xml.editing file should exist in the Storage\3102127379.sbm_BylenRingAsteroids directory in your world save.
* /ringast out 500km or /ringast out 500000 should increase the edited outer radius from the default ~120km to 500km
* /ringast inn 300km or /ringast inn 300000 should increase the edited inner radius from the default ~75km to 300km
* /ringast enable should enable the ring generation once the ring is committed.
* /ringast commit should write the settings and apply them.
* A EarthLike-1779144428d120000.xml file (Edge's XML file association calls this a Microsoft Edge HTML Document with name EarthLike-1779144428d120000 ) should exist in the Storage\3102127379.sbm_BylenRingAsteroids directory in your world save.

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i get the blue ring
and i can close the ring but the commands to adjust size and to spawn the asteroid not working

O sorry i only get /ringast select @lookat , commet and close to work wich does not help in spawning astroiids

It is not helpful to simply say it doesn't work for you.
What do you get when you use the /ringast help command?
At what step of TLDR Configuration using chat commands is it not working?
On a server, you need to be Space Master or Adnin.

hi this not working for me is it still working

It wont work for me

Disregard last, I have resolved my foolishness.

I am working on trying to set up the rings but I am having trouble finding the brown ring. Red green and blue are all showing up but brown is no where to be seen.

Hey, the mod is working perfectly on vanilla planets, but when I try using it on modded ones it doesnt generate the actual asteroid

Ignore Viking, he just got it to work.

unable to get rings to work on a server

Thanks, that hint helped me a lot. I found a solution for me that works now. Now I only need to tweak it until it looks good enough and is not too performance heavy. Can't wait when all stuff comes together.

This mod is implemented using fixed-size sectors, with the size of the sectors defined by SectorSize . Zones are quantized to this sector size. If sector size is 10km, then the minimum zone width is 10km.

Did Zones didn't work fully yet? I tried it with the example in the steam guide. That works in its basic but when I try to change the RingHeight in the zone settings nothing happens, like it ignoring that setting completely. Same on Min/MaxAstroidSize. Tried it with thin height and small asteroids to easily see a difference, nothing.

Thanks, what a stupid mistake from myself. Works like a charm now, thanks for that quick update.

<AllowAsteroidsInPlanetAtmosphere xsi:nil="false" /> -> parse error, reset to defaults

<AllowAsteroidsInPlanetAtmosphere xsi:nil="true" /> -> not set
<AllowAsteroidsInPlanetAtmosphere>true</AllowAsteroidsInPlanetAtmosphere> -> set to true

Oh, and the new setting is in the example file always at true.

Hm, the settings file act strange since the last update. Changes in the xml are sometimes not made in the example file after F5 reload as before. Can't say if that new setting is working correct because of that. Are you sure you didn't mess up something as you added this new option? For example if I switch the new one to false, the example file shows default settings. I set ir 20200 and or 30000, but the example file shows with "false" 40000 and 80000. With the new option at "true" it shows in the example 20200 and strange 40200 (instead of the 30000 in the xml).

The latest update adds an AllowAsteroidsInPlanetAtmosphere option to allow asteroids down to the planet's surface.

That would be for sure the best for my case. I'm working on a moon broken in almost two halves and wanted to place the asteroid ring near the break in the surface. It definitely looks better when they're closer which seems is not possible right now.

2km - I think I would need to exclude planet voxel chunks (which are usually 1km x 1km x 1km) from the exclusion zone test, and add a height above ground test.

It is like there is something that hold asteroids away to spawn closer as maybe 2000m or even more from the planet surface.

The problem is still, that the ring is set right, but it didn't generate asteroids inside the green area. It only start to generate it further away from it, no matter how close I set the RingInnerRadius.

Thanks, will check that. It is a moon and didn't have that height mountains. But sure I will check it and make sure it works as it should.

@Balmung the height of the inner edge of the ring from the surface is on average the ring's inner radius minus the planet's radius. For example, on a 120km diameter Earthlike planet that has a MaximumHillRadius of 67200m, setting the RingInnerRadius to 70000 should have the inner edge of the ring within 10km of the planet's surface. Setting the SectorSize to 5000 and setting the RingInnerRadius to 65000 will bring this down to 5km, with the caveat that the ring might intersect with the highest mountains.

What setting handles the asteroid spawn distance to the planet surface? I want to let them spawn very close but this mod didn't let me.

I wonder why there is no command to set a height, because you can do that manually in the file and I think that is not such an important setting as well.

ok ty

@Atlas you can use the MaxAsteroidsPerSector option to adjust the maximum number of asteroids per ring sector (and by extension, the asteroid density).

how do you adjust the density like you did in the images?

I have a recommendation for this mod and it’s to also put an example for the inc and lan degrees like “/ringast lan 15” and “/ringast inc 15”. The mod works beautifully by the way! How’s just a little bit confused setting this up and needed help setting it up so I asked for my friend to help explain it and he did. I just think this would help other people who might have the same problem in the future. 👍

ignore my previous comment, i didnt have it installed so i mustve put it on my survival world and forgot to do it on my creative world

whenever i try to use any commands from this mod it doesnt work even with the mod enabled is there anything im missing ?

Hey can i get your assistence? I'm trying to create 3 different layers of rings around a planet that look like one single ring. This is because im using the adjustable properties mod to change asteroid gen so the outer layer will have common ores (iron, nickle, cobalt, silicon, magnesium, and ice), while the inner layer will have be able to have silver, gold, platinum, and uranium.

The problem is, it's quite difficult to shape your ring, always seems to break whenever i try to change it's size even in a world with just the ring gen by itself. Would appreciate a consultation.

@Taeleus I think you would need a mod that increases the AsteroidGeneratorSpawnProbabilityMultiplier of the more common ores in asteroids. I might one day look at an option to increase the odds of getting generator seeds that give certain ores, ice asteroids, or stone asteroids.

@Dankenobi1 the ProceduralDensity in the game's sandbox settings will control the density of asteroids throughout the system while minimally affecting the density of asteroids in rings.

Anyone know of a way to make resources more scarce in asteroids? Running a mod that makes ores deeper on planets which is nice, but ive made some dense rings and it makes finding ores way too easy. wanna spread them out to slow progression.

is it possible to have asteroids only spawn in the ring and not randomly in space as is the default?
would turning off procedural asteroids then spawning in the ring work?

A modded planet and I was sitting inside the aqua ring about 50KM from a 120KM wide gas giant

@ariesfighter15 what planet were you trying to put the ring around, and what are the precise commands you tried to use?

@Thedarkpickle what planet were you trying to put the ring around, and how close was your character from the planet?

I'm also having that issue, I input the commands but no asteroids appear, it says "comitting settings" and then there are no asteroids in the aqua zone

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but the commands are not doing anything beyond making the placement rings appear and disappear. Numbers 1, 4, 5 and 6 work while 2 and 3 didn't do a thing. Please Help

Another option might be to try increasing the AsteroidGridSpawnDistance , AsteroidPlayerSpawnDistance , and maybe the AsteroidSaveDistance to e.g. 5000km for the ring.

@Шестьдесят седьмой if you enable LogDebug when enabling the ring, then monitor the latest log file for the planet in AppData\Roaming\Space Engineers\Storage\3102127379.sbm_BylenRingAsteroids , does it log something like:

Sector X, Y: Adding 123m asteroid RingAsteroid_P... with seed 329854732 at ... X:3084530925 Y:405984304938 Z:4095843095

If you go within a few km of the logged coordinates (but not so close that it inhibits the spawn of the asteroid), does an asteroid spawn?

@Bravada, thank you for the response, I must have been too tired last night to see that in the xml, first thing I saw when opening the file again today lol.

Yes, that was a mistake, the density didn’t increase 25 times. Also, I know that asteroids only spawn around players or structures. I placed blocks in observer mode (in smaller rings, asteroids appeared immediately after that), and I teleported to the asteroid belt with my character, but the asteroids still didn’t appear.

@Bravada Cadelanne. However, the issue is not with that. When I set a high asteroid density to check if the mod works at such distances, I still couldn’t find a single asteroid. Maybe the problem is with the size of the sectors and the number of asteroids per sector? I’m not sure about these values. However, when I set too high values for the number of asteroids per sector, the mod crashes. When I give the 'commit' command to apply the settings, the selection area disappears, and as far as I understand, the settings are not applied.